Opuses

Domestic violence, child abuse, human trafficking, drug abuse — crime fiction authors were writing about these subjects well before we were delivered literary opuses on the subject. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is the meaty subject tackled in the newest of Harvey Kubernik's magnum opuses co-written with brother Kenneth and this book deserves an honored place on your coffee table this Christmas season. ❋ Holly Cara Price (2011)

There is a blend of modern Chillout styles and some more Urban sounding Jazz tinged opuses on this album – music to have a warm bath in. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the wistful sympathy of "Last Man in Tower" for a decent, educated gentry besieged by cutthroat modernizers comes from the tradition of Trollope and Tolstoy, whose grand opuses are all in part love letters to a genteel old order. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

As more online journals, which publish shorter and timelier works, are popping up, the days of the 50-page opuses are hopefully numbered. ❋ Eric Segall (2012)

Like so many of the dour magnum opuses that fill high-school syllabi, The Scarlet Letter is a bummer. ❋ Nathan Rabin (2010)

His dramatic solos and stage hops also fired up the fans during "A Favor House Atlantic" and "In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3," both 2003 opuses that often sounded like Rush homages, with drummer Chris Pennie on the beat and everywhere else and lyrics that only a CIA cryptanalyst or college-age C&C fan could decipher. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We were thinking since this year's Oscar hopefuls are just now hitting theaters and you don't have one of your opuses coming out, we would start a campaign to give you a special achievement award for being so awesome. ❋ Michael Seitzman (2010)

But the resistance to shift from the millennia-long exhortation of the opuses of dead white heterosexual men to a multicultural perspective including the scholarship of women, gays and lesbians, and people of color is viewed by many as a "dumbing-down" effect of America's educational curriculum. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While Emerson was off on his literary sabbatical, I would go to England and spend time with my other client, the brooding Simon, whose career had not advanced beyond plodding through the Sudetenland playing his opuses for rooms filled with baying proles, but who was at least now getting the money due him for his troubles. ❋ BILL FLANAGAN (2010)

His dramatic solos and stage hops also fired up the fans during "A Favor House Atlantic" and "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" -- both 2003 opuses that often sounded like Rush homages, with drummer Chris Pennie on the beat and everywhere else, and lyrics that only a CIA cryptanalyst or college-age C&C fan could decipher. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While Lam beautifully stitches together different pieces of music to make each cohesive mix, Hwang is responsible for the stunning illustrations that are used as a visual introduction to the miniature opuses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Are theater-goers in for a spate of young-women-behaving-badly opuses from distaff playwrights purporting to study the lamentable deportment? ❋ Unknown (2010)